Making big bets on
tired old franchises like Hitman and Tomb Raider will be the death of Square Enix, no matter how you shuffle the staff around.
As an aside, I find it funny that, when Ubisoft creates a brand new IP in Child of Light and it sells very well on the eShop they don't look at the situation logically and think that maybe it's time to retire
some tired old franchises and try something new.
It was
a tired old franchise and no one on the PS side was asking for it to be ported and MS securing the exclusive rights to this series instead of investing that into something new shows just how clueless they really are.
Not exact matches
It's nice to know he's out there breathing new life into
old action
franchises especially when movies like A Good Day to Die Hard show just how
tired they can become.
The rest of the package is as solid as ever, and for
old - school fans of the
franchise tired of laser beams and jetpacks, the title provides an epic return to form to classic warfare.
Literally, after five years of the conventional wisdom being that only established
franchises and sequels could exist in the games market, someone finally got the idea that maybe, just maybe, the people are
tired of the same
old, same
old (found via Kotaku).
The fact is that most of Nintendo's
franchises haven't changed much from their first version to make the jump from 2D to 3D (the
old school 2D / 3D switch, not the current one), and I'm kind of
tired of buying a marginally improved version of the same game over and over.